Persistence properties and unique continuation of solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation

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Abstract: It is shown that a strong solution of the Camassa-Holm equation, initially decaying exponentially together with its spacial derivative, must be identically equal to zero if it also decays exponentially at a later time. In particular, a strong solution of the Cauchy problem with compact initial profile can not be compactly supported at any later time unless it is the zero solution.


The authors study the Camassa-Holm equation \[ u_t - u_{txx} + 3uu_x -2u_x u_{xx} - u u_{xxx} = 0, \] which physically was derived as a shallow water equation admitting peaked solitons. They prove that, given a strong solution to the Cauchy problem for this equation such that the initial data \(u(x,0)\) decays exponentially together with the spatial derivative, if at some time \(t_1>0\) the solution \(u(x,t_1)\) decays exponentially in \(x\) then \(u\) is identically zero: \(u(x,t) \equiv 0\).




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